Category: Thoughts & Musings

Some people are like a pile of dry sticks, and it doesn’t take much to light them up – Meghan Currie, on yoga Six months ago I was just waking from a period of depression when I found the Yoga With Adriene website and committed myself to the free 30 Days of Yoga series. I’ve … More Six Months of Yoga: Observation, Transformation

At the end of June, one and a half months into my yoga journey, I bought a book called Wanderlust: A Modern Yogi’s Guide to Discovering Your Best Self by Jeff Krasno. The book provides a kind of compass for finding one’s way to a place of stillness and fulfillment from within through the practice of meditation … More Working the First Two Yamas – Ahimsa and Satya

My Second Graduation For the second time, I have completed my undergraduate degree, in the same program. As I wrote about here, I received a bachelor of arts in gender studies last spring after four years of university. Only, in order to receive that degree at that time, I actually cut a year off of … More My Second Graduation, A New Chapter, and Grounding

“When communities of people cannot recognize themselves in public institutions … [they] feel that they are strangers in society, that the society is not their society” – Raymond Breton, political theorist Very recently (about 30 minutes ago) I was introduced to the issue of ‘yoga porn’ via this doyouyoga.com article called “Is Yoga Shaming the New … More Please, No (more) Pictures

My 30 Days of Yoga With Adriene ended a few days ago but I wasn’t ready to commit my closing thoughts to (electronic) paper yet. I wanted to figure out how to express the transformation I’ve experienced, how to convey its depth through words. Finally, I realize it just can’t be done. One thing I’ve … More 30 Days of Yoga Challenge – Complete, and World Yoga Day

I had a bad winter. And during this bad winter, instead of doing all the things I should have done, like exercise, journal, and socialize, I isolated myself and stayed almost completely sedentary (except for going to class and work) while I binge-watched a very unhealthy amount of tv and procrastinated/stressed about my school work. … More Waking Up: 30 Days of Yoga